With the disclaimer that I build my own computers,which means I have UEFI but not the fabulous "secure boot", I've had no trouble booting Puppy or other distros with either k-2.6.x or k-3.x.x.
I set the bios to "legacy mode"(individual hardware may and probably will differ in the terminology) and distro hop away.Actually can't recall anything that hasn't booted.

Thanks all. Unfortunately not the answer I was hoping to get. I've just bought a new laptop with a 4th gen haswell cpu, Windows 8, and UEFI "BIOS".

I haven't found a way to boot puppy 5.2.8-05 at all on it.

Has anyone succeeded in booting Puppy on a UEFI system?

I think you need to disable the secure boot feature of UEFI bios

Here is an example of how to do it. May work slightly different for your computer, but the general method is explained.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/17058-secure-boot-enable-disable-uefi.html_________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

It finds and configures my new Netgear N150 USB wireless adapter with no problems.

One problem with 3HD version is video drivers.
In Quickpet drivers tab
Run check your graphics card.
It identifies my Nvidia card OK
Gives Option button to download Nvidia driver
There are no drivers available for download.

I know this is an issue with no driver pets made for the kernel in 3HD on the download repository.
Drivers are there for standard Lucid 5.2.8.6 compiled for its kernel.

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EDIT: To correct myself......

There are drivers available in the official repo..... but I've been successfully using these.....

I was looking for those graphic drivers made for the specific kernel 2.6.37.6.
Now if they could be placed in a location where Quickpet in Lupu 3HD could find them._________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

Uploaded new variant, lupusuper, which is playdayz' "sulu_001" based on kernel 3.0.25 and with the 5.2.8.6 upgrade applied. This provides a version for verifying that all fixes to accommodate kernels 3.x are in place in 5.2.8.6, and whether anyone benefits from the newer set of drivers in that kernel.

I would prefer that we settle on one "3.0" version based on a kernel already supported in the official puppy sources library. That would be 3.0.66. But is that even worth doing, given that there are so many newer alternative puppies about?
Richard

About the need for a version with a newer Linux kernel.
I found that to get my new Netgear N150 network wireless USB adapter, to work, I needed to use Lupu 3HD. Its slightly newer kernel was needed.

So, I could see support for new add on hardware as reason to justify a newer kernel.

With the changes you are making to Lucid Puppy, the kernel version is probably the biggest difference, between it, and newer versions of Puppy._________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

how is the 'alone tray' window created? Is it a launcher, file manager or something else?

Good afternoon, darkcity.

Many thanks for mentioning this 0.4.9. version of the echinus window
manager in the Puppy wikka. I'm honored! It will also give more exposure
to an excellent window manager.

As to "stalonetray" - no doubt a contraction of the words "stand alone" --,
it is neither a launcher nor a file manager. It is an independent icon tray.
It is very stable, more so than the ROX-Tray applet, for example.

Another excellent feature is that you can shape it as you wish (as a
square, on one line or more, vertical or horizontal, long or short, large or
small, with or without borders, transparent or not, tinted or not). You can
make it sit at any suitable place on your screen. Furthermore, you can
ask it to display the icons bigger or smaller, from the left or from the right.

You compile it and install it as you do with any Linux executable. To use it,
you put a link to the stalonetray executable in the /root/Startup folder;
alternately, you may include it in the starting file or sequence of your
window manager.

To work properly, stalonetray has to be the only active icon tray; in the
example above, the tray function in fbpanel has been de-activated.

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